Nim City, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nemaha precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68337. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt SE quadrangle.

Nim City within Richardson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1916 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Humboldt SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,551 words on this township

History of Richardson County, Nebraska : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Nemaha Precinct. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Falls City, the county seat, with a reported population of 3,255, is located in the southeastern section at a junction of two railroads, and is a distributing point for farm implements and supplies. Humboldt, Rulo, Stella, Verdon, Salem, Preston, Dawson, and Shubert are other towns of local importance. Straussville is a, railroad point. Barada and Nim City are small inland towns.

Passage source: History of Richardson County, Nebraska : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Nemaha Precinct.

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Nim City between 2001 and 2019, burning about 407 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 May 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Horton Agency	FESTUS
30 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Horton Agency	DILLON
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Horton Agency	WAGON
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Horton Agency	OLD
25 April 2001	Debris and open burning	220 acres	Horton Agency	POO
22 April 2001	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Horton Agency	SAC
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 March 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Athens (historical)

Every fire recorded in Richardson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Athens (historical)	6.2 miles	12
Dawson	6.4 miles	11
Salem	8.2 miles	11
Humboldt	9.2 miles	11
Verdon	11.0 miles	11
Straussville	13.3 miles	11
Stella	14.0 miles	11
Falls City	14.2 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Nim City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18353542	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835391. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.